Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frederic W. Wile, who, as a correspondent, is almost omniscient as to the histories and political detail of Washington, is not the man to miss a point. He recalled that Edward L. Doheny, famed for oil, was the chief backer of the campaign in this country for Irish freedom, prior to the setting up of the Irish Free State. Mr. Doheny was President of the American Association; for Recognition of the Irish Republic, and as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1920 in San Francisco he made a fight to hammer an Irish freedom plank into the Democratic...
...months among London drawing-rooms and then a couple of years in jungles, men who wandered about the world, whose friends were scattered across a hemisphere, but who were all joined by their common membership in the British official class. They are not often described with any detail, but the exact atmosphere in which they moved is obvious everywhere in the book. It is an atmosphere unconsciously summed up by Sir Harry's explanation of his dislike for the Boers: "Their policy toward the natives was far more despotic and wilfully stupid than ours had ever been; their lack...
Both Freshmen and University candidates will be present tonight. Captain Pfaffmann, in outlining the plans for the season, will probably detail the test matches which will be played, and Coach Harry L. Cowles will explain the general rules for training. Due to the fact that the season is unusually short this year, there will be an effort to whip the squad into shape as quickly as possible...
...volume can, of course, explain all of these things in detail. Schools of Journalism spend two years or more in teaching the art of publishing a newspaper. But Editing the Day's News gives one an interesting glimpse, if nothing more, into the inner workings of a daily paper. It is, as its subtitle truly says, "an introduction to newspaper copyreading, headline writing, illustration, makeup, and general newspaper methods...
...receive new suggestions from outside, either as to knowledge, or the method of acquiring it. And of late years French scholarship and research methods have done much to broaden the horizon of literary men the world over. German scholarship was long considered supreme, with its careful, obsequious attention to detail, and its exhaustive thoroughness. But in the last century a French influence made itself felt, broadening the conception of the world "research". A group of French scholars achieved success which surpassed the reputation of the German, and helped to bring about the sort of research work conducted at present...